“All great fiction films tend towards documentary, just as all great documentaries tend toward fiction.”

– Jean-Luc Godard

This term we will be looking at documentaries/hybrid documentaries. We will watch “That Sugar Film” and “2020” as examples. Then we will plan and film our own hybrid documentaries and create a mini-docu-series “Stranger Teens”.

 

Traits of hybrid documentary:

• The self is performed, therefore can be directed
• The political can be playful
• Ethics are flexible: They begin with the filmmaker
• Form is content
• History is live
• A film is a documentary of it’s own production (Jacques Rivette)
• The director is responsible
• Imagination belongs to the reality it is born into
• The screen is pandemic, the stage omnipresent
• No facts are separable from their fabrication
• Trust is the basis of truth